Health initiatives that become prioritised are not necessarily those associated with the greatest levels of morbidity or mortality, rather, those which have been effectively positioned by policy communities [ 21].
That is, for these participants, their material and support needs as heterosexual men who are also fathers, husbands and, in many cases, socially isolated remain largely unaddressed while similar concerns for women become prioritised by HIV researchers, clinicians and policy makers.
They conclude that the dominant machine and organism metaphors impede progress towards sustainable development because they perpetuate a story that dehumanises and de‐prioritises humans at the expense of the organisation which in turn becomes a rarefied and prioritised subject.
At 2-year follow-up, the dense network in Nepal became even stronger as actors prioritised integration of services for organisational growth and survival and was an enabling factor in the utilisation of sustainability indicators [ 58].
Fluctuating BGLs became particularly difficult while breast-feeding and the women, therefore, prioritised control of diabetes (e.g. by eating prior to breast-feeding) so they could continue to breast-feeding without risk of hypoglycaemia [ 34].
An ageing population becomes a burden, a problem to be tucked away and not prioritised - but our own older relatives, friends?
If, however, a participant experiences substantial difficulties coping or has a temporary lack of motivation, and this becomes a threat to continued participation, a revised version of the data collection form with a few prioritised items will be offered as an alternative to the full version.
"In the old days if land occupied by schools became available as surplus to requirements … the sale receipt went to the local authority to allocate according to its prioritised need [across all its services, including education].
The social and political commentaries underpinning Sen's story paint a picture of a nation that has always, since settlement, prioritised money over land, and has never understood – as Midnight Oil might have put it (before its lead singer became part of the problem) – something as precious as a hole in the ground.
Finally, respondents who were overweight or obese were more likely to belong to a class who considered age should be a prioritisation criterion; though, some prioritised 20-year-olds and some prioritised 50-year-olds.
Germany prioritised "jobs, jobs, jobs," he said.
